The Secret Herbal Formula Shaolin Monks Use

for thousands of years sha and monks have had these closely guarded formulas for injury prevention treatment of injuries and even to treat brone fractures and help people recover faster now these formulas and linament are often called Dio which means fall hit wine it sometimes translated as and they're fascinating in their composition and while they've been used for all kinds of purposes related to martial arts and actual physical external medicine they have within them a great lesson on healing with traditional Chinese medicine and how we can actually use these to live a longer and a better life so let's jump in and go into the secret history of these Shaolin external lineaments and we'll talk about Herbal Healing with tral Chinese medicine hey guys I'm Dr Alex Hine board licensed acupuncturist and doctor of tral Chinese medicine and author of the health book master of the day let's get in now lots of traditional martial arts either practice techniques that were physically damaging potentially to the body like for example there's something called iron Palm where practitioners would put bags of mung beans then gravel then steel shot and they basically do these repetitive Motions like this and what it is is it actually will increase the toughness the thickness of your skin it will increase the bone density of your bones in that hand and in some cases will disfigure the hand with calluses and discoloration and the reason for that training is that to be hit by someone who has done iron pal training is significantly more damaging than someone who has not done that and there are all kinds of fascinating Kung Fu history stories about a person who is hit with an iron Palm strike from someone who'd been training that for 10 to 20 years and how incredibly damaging or even potentially damaging internal organs that could actually happen from that training and it's based on some real scientific Merit but one aspect of the iron Palm training to prevent permanent disfigurement of hands if you don't believe me just Google image iron Palm hands you'll see some the prevention strategy for that is after each training session you rub in this linament basically it minimizes the bruising so the hematomas you develop from that damage you're causing to the hands but also these are used for just casual injuries you get punched in the eye you get a black eye you get kicked in the leg and you get a giant hematoma or for broken bones it can actually accelerate healing for example check out this tiny little guy practicing iron Palm training now while this is probably one part true one part maybe prepared bricks it's a real aspect of training that can cause increased bone density in the hands to do things like this but you have to treat it properly to prevent disfigurement now some people come across these external in just by chance there's a great practitioner I really love called Andrew nent head he spent decades in China living there and he talks about he found traditional Chinese medicine because he was actually hit by a taxi one day and I'll read you his story from his website he said that in 1989 he was hit by a taxi in China and he broke the metatarsals of his foot through Chinese medicine treatments alone the injury healed remarkably fast and he was able to hike just a few weeks later and the experience changed Andrew's life he decided instantly he must understand this incredible medicine and he did not know that event would set the stage for a life documenting the last old doctors of Beijing now these external lineaments are just some of the daily practices from traditional Chinese medicine that can help you live longer and live better now I've put together four daily healing rituals and practices you can do every day that can potentially add years to your life with traditional Chinese medicine it's the first link below this video and we go into some of these practices you can get into and you can start applying in your life so check it out now what's actually in some of these formulas let's talk about three or four of the key herbs now herb number one is what we call for moving blood stasis and this herb is called danen or Salvia danen is an herb that we use typically to protect the heart in cases of cardiovascular issues that can have blood stagnation I.E your arteries are clogged and people are having fixed chest pain and they're in really quite dangerous State we also use danan Salvia for cases of blood stagnation elsewhere in the body like menstrual pain typically fixed pain that is piercing we call blood stagnation and you see this a lot in gynecological conditions like PCOS ovarian cysts and so what you can often utilize this formulas that what we call move blood stagnation to improve the pain itself now another category is what we call blood movers and one herb we use here is called dahang or rhubarb now dahang is typically used primarily as a perogative for Digestive problems where people are constipated it's also used when people have high fevers and basically the purgative effect of the dahong can actually drop a person's fever when they have an acute abdomen so if there's an acute issue like let's say diverticulitis you can utilize dahang to help basically Purge some of that stored feal matter when someone who's constipated and will help drop the fever very very rapidly but we also use it for conditions involving blood stasis as we say dahang moves the blood so these these external lineament you apply on a bruise or a joint not only helps draw resources there for proper healing it helps move for example clotting and also helps accelerate the rate of recovering from bruising for example another category of herbs we use for example are bow blood Builders so bya is a herb we use as a traditional what we call liver blood tonic so for example you may have issues with let's say you're exercising a lot you're really working out you're training too hard and at night you're noticing you're getting a little bit hot there's a famous formula we use that helps replenish that engine oil that you've depleted but we also use high amounts of bow for abdominal pain involving gall stones it can be stomach pains that kids have it can be menstrual related pains very commonly is a stomach ache formula famous for that so bow is a nerb we use for spasmodic pain as well as blood building and finally one further category we used in these external laments are analgesic so individual herbs that are said to have a pain relieving effect right sometimes we use them for like osteoarthritis older people that have lots of aches and pains Chan in the aconite family or uh duoa which is something that we use often for widespread joint aches is something that is pain relieving so we often have blood movers blood Builders herbs for inflammation and herbs for pain in these external lineament and these are also herbs we use for other Internal Medicine issues as well while not all of them are used internally as well plenty of them are used for other conditions So within my practice Internal Medicine herbal medicine is what I specialize in custom compounding these formulas and actually I work with a limited number of new patients every single month in my clinic [Music] so it all falls into the framework of how traditional Chinese medicine views certain signs and symptoms and how it treats them with traditional medicines now we talk a lot more about some of these healing practices you can do and also how to get a feel for where you are in terms of your health what organ is weak what do you have to work on within my introductory program called intro to Healing with traditional Chinese medicine it's in the bio below this video and I figured rather than me putting up a bunch of sponsored videos or products that I probably don't believe in anyway and don't actually help you why not release my own online programs and cour that can actually help you do this on your own and so you don't need a product so this course we really go into the Bedrock practices of why we get sick what we can do to heal what do you have to watch out for what organs are the weakest for you and what practices might help those organs really get back online and help you feeling much much better so it's right in the bio of this video if you want to learn more and before you guys go I have another related video on this exact topic right up her